* Large bags must be left in the
holding area, away from research desks

Researchers have access to a PC which allows
them to use key word searches of PastPerfect, our computerised database of
records held. The researcher finds an item of interest, notes the storage
location, and then with the assistance of a FDCA volunteer, either prints a copy
of the scanned item or the original is retrieved for the archive for viewing.

NOTE: Not all records are
available to researchers, depending on their physical condition, and progress
with computer
cataloguing.

Colonel Feilding

Research Charges

FDCA is a community funded organisation,
and to cover costs a number of research charges apply:

Feilding Genealogy (Feilding Branch of New Zealand Society of
Genealogists) has members available every Wednesday morning at the
Heritage Room of Feilding Public Library to assist with family research.
The national website has information of all branches.
www.genealogy.org.nz

Feilding Public Library’s digitised photographic collection is still
under development.
The photograph collection and index card to the Feilding Star will soon
be searchable separately
www.mdc.govt.nz.FDCA has a
catalogued collection of people and places of Feilding, and the National
Library of NZ also has an extensive collection

Manawatu County Council was the original council established in 1876. It
covered from Otaki to Rangiwahia initially. Other county councils were
amalgamated into Manawatu District Council. Many historical records of
these previous councils are held at Manawatu District Council.
www.mdc.govt.nz.

School Records

Feilding township has 5 primary schools – Manchester, Lytton Street,
North Street, St Joseph’s Catholic and Feilding Intermediate School.
FAHS – Feilding High School and Hato Paora are the two secondary
schools. Country schools include Cheltenham, Colyton, Halcombe, Kopane,
Mt Biggs, Oroua Downs, Sanson, Kimbolton, Rangiwahia, Kiwitea, Rongotea
and Waituna West. Most of these school hold their own historical
records. Records of schools since closed are now held by National
Archives in Wellington. School register information includes parent’s
names, address and occupation details.

Burial Info – Cemeteries

The Manawatu District Council’s website lists most of the cemeteries in
the district
www.mdc.govt.nz. Many of the on-line records now include photographs
of the headstones. Local undertakers have records of funerals.